David Crane

David Crane is a leading business voice in the field of sustainability, clean energy and climate change.

He is the former Under Secretary for Infrastructure in the Department of Energy during the Biden administration and, before that, served as Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. Outside of government, Crane was the CEO of Climate Real Impact Solutions and served on the Boards of Heliogen Inc, Source Global, JERA Co. Inc., and Tata Steel Ltd, along with the not-for-profit Boards of Elemental Excelerator and The Climate Group NA. He was also a part of The B Team, serving as a leader and chairing the organization’s Net Zero Initiative.

David Crane served as president, CEO and on the Board of Directors of NRG Energy from 2003 through 2015. While there, he led NRG’s transformation into the clean-energy space, developing new solar, wind, high efficiency gas and other generation sources while growing NRG’s retail, carbon capture and electric vehicle service businesses.

Crane has been recognized for exemplary leadership, receiving such awards as Ernst & Young’s 2010 Transformational Achievement award, EnergyBiz’s 2010 CEO of the Year and Institutional Investor’s 2011 top CEO in the electric utility sector.